I am a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test / Quality Assurance with 10+ years of experience delivering high-quality, scalable software across e-commerce, cloud, payments, mobile, and enterprise platforms. I excel in test automation, API and mobile testing, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native systems, collaborating with global teams to own quality from design through production in fast-paced Agile environments.

Swarna Banala

I am a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test / Quality Assurance with 10+ years of experience delivering high-quality, scalable software across e-commerce, cloud, payments, mobile, and enterprise platforms. I excel in test automation, API and mobile testing, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native systems, collaborating with global teams to own quality from design through production in fast-paced Agile environments.

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I am a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test / Quality Assurance with 10+ years of experience delivering high-quality, scalable software across e-commerce, cloud, payments, mobile, and enterprise platforms.

I excel in test automation, API and mobile testing, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native systems, collaborating with global teams to own quality from design through production in fast-paced Agile environments.

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Work Experience

SDET II (Consultant) at Amazon
October 1, 2023 - December 1, 2025
Led end-to-end test automation and validation for email notification redesign across marketplaces; owned UAT and integration test cycles; developed API test suites for LLM-powered ASIN descriptions; built dashboards to track quality metrics; collaborated with cross-functional teams.
Senior Software Engineer, Quality Assurance at Grab
October 1, 2021 - July 1, 2023
Led QA delivery from test planning through closure for GrabID and Safety initiatives; validated features with cross-regional teams; executed manual and automated tests for iOS/Android; maintained automation frameworks; integrated CI/CD with AWS; diagnosed production issues using multiple monitoring tools.
Software Development Engineer in Test Lead (Consultant) at Starbucks
July 1, 2019 - June 1, 2021
Tested cloud-hosted microservices for loyalty, rewards, and POS systems; built automation frameworks with .NET, C#, NUnit, SpecFlow, RestSharp; performed mobile automation; queried CosmosDB; supported Azure-based CI/CD deployments.
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Consultant) at Starbucks
February 1, 2018 - April 1, 2019
Led QA for Order Fulfillment and Transactions APIs; automated REST API tests with Scala for AWS-hosted microservices; owned QA lifecycle with Jira/TestRail; debugged production issues with Splunk and Kubernetes; queried Cassandra for loyalty data; implemented Concourse CI/CD; used Fiddler for API troubleshooting.
Senior / Software Design Engineer in Test (Consultant) at Microsoft Corporation
June 1, 2013 - February 1, 2018
Validated Windows applications on Surface/ARM64; authored tests in MTM and tracked defects in TFS; led QA for Video Interop solutions with Polycom on Azure; contributed to Dynamics CRM & Bing Maps automation and Windows Phone CXE tooling.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India
January 11, 2030 - April 28, 2026

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Retail, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services

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